Accident on the lower Bure

[Matt]

Wishing a speedy recovery!

[Hylander]

I am sure we will all wish them all the best and a quick recovery. What a blow just when you are enjoying your holiday.

 

 

[RayandCarole]

We wish them all well, what a sad year we seem to be having

Ray & Carole

[MauriceMynah]

I have the distinct feeling that somebody somewhere is being economical with the truth here.

[grendel]

I hope he didnt bump his head on the fire extinguisher...

 

[MrPlant]

Blimey look at that! What did they hit?

[imtamping2]

Ice-burgh ? 

[jeffbroadslover]

Just trying to imagine how a boat can sustain such damage if it had run aground !

Looks more like collision damage to me

 

Jeff

[ChrisB]

I am with MM on this one. I think the sequence of events might be the other way round ie injury after boat hits something.

In any other circumstances where personal injury involving a method of transport necessitates the attendance of three emergency services and a hospitalised casualty there would be an investigation. But who will ever know. They must have left the helm with the craft tramping along! Does anyone do that?

Looks like a point loading impact, like a metal post or pile.

Edited September 5, 2015 by ChrisB

[Paul]

I was in the process of typing almost word for word what Chris has just said, the account published just does not add up.

[BrundallNavy]

It was very windy in Great Yarmouth today and the water level is very high, it would not take long to get blown off course if your not concentrating.

 

doug.

[BroadScot]

Maybe best not to pre judge ?

 

Iain.

 

 

[SweetKingfisher1]

Ok, we (Ian) agree this has been the worst September weather we have had since we have been boating. Today we came under Ludham bridge, but the height signage are wrong, as they were showing just under 8ft. We moored up south side of the bridge and asked the guys at the boat yard regarding the bridge height. He told us the signs were wrong, as other boats had been hitting them and put them off level. Also meeting the guys off of Braveheart. Ludham as of today just under 8ft showing is around 8ft6ins for going under. I hope this will help others on the river. Regarding Marina & Ian ️

[unclemike]

am i seeing things or is that a lump of breexe block embedded in the opening?

 

[JennyMorgan]

Just hope that it wasn't another boat that they hit! I agree that we shouldn't prejudge, especially as the report begs more questions than it answers.

[dnks34]

Not pre judging but i think its safe to assume whatever caused that damage the boat it hit it VERY hard.  

Ive never seen damage like this before.  I do hope we get to hear the full story.

[BroadScot]

Was it not Carousel or Bolero ended up with the bow crunched in? 

 

Iain.

[MauriceMynah]

As I would be the last person to suggest that it might just be possible, that should a vessel try to go between a "shallow water" marker post and the bank and should the shallow bank be such that it forced that vessel onto the afore said post, the resultant damage could, in certain eyes, not be entirely dissimilar from that which the photograph illustrates, I shall refrain from making any comment on the subject!

[BroadScot]

Found it, it was Bolero.  http://www.thenorfolkbroads.net/forum/topic/3044-bolero/?do=findComment&comment=44145

 

Iain

[dnks34]

I didnt hear about that one, I just dont understand how damage like this can be called an accident.  How does this happen without a fair bit of negligence thrown in for good measure?! 

I cant think how I could accidently do this kind of damage unless I actually hit another moving boat, hopefully I dont ever have to find out! 

[JennyMorgan]

Our local rag, the EDP. is well slow off the mark in reporting this one:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/man_in_his_70s_is_injured_following_cruiser_accident_on_the_river_bure_1_4224314

Any news on what they hit yet?

[LondonRascal]

I showed Shiela this photo yesterday lunchtime – and then she came up with something very clever I had not thought about.

We don’t know what actually happened and we don’t know how bad the person who hit their head was hurt we just have a single picture of the boat after whatever happened had happened.

 This information is what the boatyard have too – and they too will speculate like we are on this forum about what happened and how, but crucially as Shiela said to me, if the boatyard take matters further to try and recover any money off the hirers it all becomes harder if the facts are someone was injured prior to the boat being damaged – it removes a lot of ‘blame’ if you will and makes fighting things out that much harder to prove. 

You know that damage was done to the boat and you could well prove that it was caused by hitting something (to my mind a steel sided bank or a navigation post on lower Bure) but could you prove it was caused by negligence or a sudden panic onboard caused by a crew member being injured by something else (like slipping over and hitting their head). If that was the case then you could well excuse someone for panicking, rushing to the others aid and in the heat of the moment forgetting the boat was still in gear travelling along and a fair lick of speed. 

Suffice to say, it won’t be long before this boat is repaired and back on the rivers with many of us nosey Broadies trying to see the repair

[BroadScot]

Although this is a good to discuss issue, I still feel we should hold council till more information becomes available. Someone was injured, that in itself is bad enough. Boats can, and will be repaired.

Just like the boatyard rumours, till we have the facts.......

 

Iain.

[kfurbank]

I suspect the facts will never be known unless there are other witnesses who come forward. What I will say is that the tides had been backed up all week with the high and low tides being much higher than normal with little water flowing out the system. I don't see how any boat could do that much damage drifting with the tide after running aground. The water levels came up Tuesday and pretty much stayed higher till Sunday.

I thought I'd done the smart thing and headed straight up to Coltishall Sunday week ago to avoid the madness of the bank holiday and the flappy things on Barton Broad. The intention was to do the Ant later in the week. By the time we tried to get back through Wroxham bridge we were well and truly stuck. I ended up using the boat as a floating base and doing days out from Wroxham. Andy was very understanding of my overstaying on the moorings.

Eventually Saturday lunchtime it was a case of try and go for it or pack up and go home leaving the boat stuck the other side. With some suitable protection and a very slow passage we managed to squeeze through the bridge with millimetres to spare. I never imagined my boat could make it through Wroxham at that clearance.

[BuffaloBill]

I peeked in NBD's shed today and I don't see Statesman going out any time soon.

There is quite a bit of internal damage besides the obvious exterior stuff.

I will look in again later in the week.